A PARAPHRASE ON THE Clergies Address TO THE KING, upon Occasion of His Order in Council for Reading His late Declaration For Liberty of Conscience In all CHURCHES.  
With allowance.  
The Text. The Paraphrase. 
We are not averse to the Publishing of the Declaration, for want of due Tenderness towards Dissenters, with relation to whom we shall be willing to come to such a Temper as shall be thought fit, when the matter comes to be considered, and settled in Parliament and Convocation.  
But the Declaration being founded upon such a Dispencing Power, as may at pleasure set aside all Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil, appears to us Illegal, and did so to the Parliament in 1672. And it is a Point of such great Consequence, that we cannot make ourselves Parties to it, so far as the reading of it in the Church in the time of Divine Service will amount to.  
We, who without any Bowels of tenderness, have hitherto exercised many inhuman Cruelties upon Dissenters, observing the favourable regard that the Government has now toward them, do promise, that We will hereafter come to such a Temper in those Matters, as shall be settled by ourselves in Convocation, and by a Parliament of our own Party.  
But though we suppose the King's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience to be founded upon that Arbitrary Power which we have vigorously endeavoured to advance above all Law, when it could be strained to the Oppression of Dissenters, and to the Establishment of our Greatness; yet finding it to be now Calculated, for a more Equal and Impartial end, and destitute of those private Considerations which have formerly animated Us, We are desirous in this Conjuncture (as We were formerly, in the Year 1672) that those Laws for Persecution, by which our Ecclesiastical Empire has been maintained should retain their Force, and do by no means think fit to countenance the dispencing with them, upon that single Motive of General Good which the Declaration carries along with it.    

Printed for R. C. and H. L. 1688.